Curiously, this seems to have been the only public event to mark the date in Finland, despite the fact that our nation was one of the main victims of the ignominious pact between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia that plunged our continent into a bloody and destructive world war.

The international human rights organisation, Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), has sent a letter to the Finnish President, Sauli Niinistö, regarding the publications of the Finnish free newspaper, Magneettimedia. SWC appealed to President Niinistö to invoke the prestige of his office to condemn the antisemitic articles published in Magneettimedia. SWC notes that the newspaper's articles violate the European Union's anti-discrimination provisions.